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Your Decision

Submitted to Contest #47

You’ve got a suitcase in hand and you’re on your way to the station. You’ve got a long way to go and the time is limited.  The sky is covered in dark clouds and rain is pouring down on you furiously. It started raining just as you left but it was too late to go back for an umbrella. The rubbish is dancing with the wind in the narrow streets. You remember reading the weather forecast yesterday, checking it time and time again. It said it was going to be sunny, no rain at any point. You begin to think you might have been looking up the w...

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That secret affair

Submitted to Contest #47

You wiped your tears off your cheeks but your eyes showed that you have been crying for some while now - that swelled up eyes and abnormally puffy face - even a third person can tell for sure that you have been crying. You took the clothes that showed up as soon as you opened the cupboard and stuffed them in your suitcase. Without even checking if you need anything so important, you took phone, purse, and made sure there is more than enough cash in it to hold as long as you can on your journey. You adjusted your dress to make it look fine as...

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Dreams come true

Submitted to Contest #47

“Hi Mum!” Skye slammed the front door, and dropped her bag by the door, making her way towards the kitchen – where she knew Mum would be cooking tea for when Dad got home from work. Mum turned round and smiled warmly at her as Skye sat herself down at the kitchen table. “Hi love, how was your day?” She winked and put a square of chocolate in front of Skye. Skye beamed. “Alright thanks. What did I do to deserve this?” Skye licked the edge of the square slowly, savouring the sweet musky taste. Mum sighed. “You deserve it honey. You d...

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The Accidental Life

Submitted to Contest #47

You pack your bags and get ready to leave. 33 years after being uprooted from your roots, you force yourself to return to your origin. Isn't that the promise you made to yourself a decade back? In a thunderous eureka moment, blood pumping courage, pushing your thoughts towards that pinnacle called acceptance?You were always driven by rage to push yourself and fight beyond your strengths. It wasn't entirely a desire to calmly and quietly achieve your goals with deep resolute. They weren't even your goals. They were goals set upon yo...

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As Fate Would Have It

Submitted to Contest #47

This world can be so cruel sometimes. You all know it. You meet someone and it's... it's love at first sight. It has to be. The way their eyes shine in the sunlight, the way the ends of their mouth curl up into a smile so slowly. And then suddenly, they're gone. It's as if they were a ghost. They're gone as fast as they came, and it hurts. You feel like every second without them, without their soft voice, is a second chipping away at your heart and soul until one day you will be just as gone as they are. Even saying their name gave you goose...

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Dead Authors

Submitted to Contest #47

You shift the battered and overpacked suitcase to your other hand, grateful that the train station is only three more blocks away. A steady drizzle makes the pavement glisten and a steady trickle of cold water has found its way past the collar of your coat and down the back of your neck, but you can't take the time to fix it now. The train to St. Louis is leaving in twenty minutes - you should just make it.Green neon flashes above the door of a bar and lights up the puddles just enough for you to side step the worst of them. Glowing snakes w...

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ONE NIGHT ON A TRAIN

Submitted to Contest #47

ONE NIGHT ON A TRAIN The managing director of the company said “Vanek, go to zone Alpha, negotiate and see that the contract is finalised with APC. I’ll then go over and sign it. You’ve been ticketed on tonite’s train. A room has been booked for you in our company’s guest house.” That was how, suitcase in hand, Vanek headed for the station that evening. You may ask what is zone Alpha. Companies demarcate zones according to importance to their business, name those, and use those names even if the towns and railway stations contained within th...

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Mission Zavier

Submitted to Contest #47

You stand just on the inside of the door, your sister behind you. You’re about to leave on the trip of your life. But it’s not just your life. The lives of nine others, as well. You call to your sister. “Bye, Eliza! I wish you could come with me!” “Yeah, yeah, me too. You’re going to be late! Go!” Eliza shooes you over the threshold of your house. “I love you, don’t forget. We’ll miss you. . .come back soon.” she trails off, her eyes watering. “Love you too, Eliza.” You wrap your sister in a hug. A tear rolls down her cheek, onto your sh...

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The Reason and the Unforgettable Revelation

Submitted to Contest #47

 The determination to walk away from her is sky-high. You can’t erase the images from your mind, and the power behind them is enough to amplify an entire city with hot electricity. And, as her lies echo around inside your mind, you walk briskly through the train station, suitcase in hand, a vulgar sense of dread and betrayal swirling in your stomach. If only you hadn’t come home early that day to surprise her with an early birthday gift. But you had. You just had to ruin everything by thinking of her, and getting her that sparkling ru...

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Then the phone rings

Submitted to Contest #47

I can't believe what I'm doing. Suitcase in hand, I'm early for the next train, so I'm walking to the station. In spite of the sudden urge, I need to think about it. I don't know what your reaction will be. It's been a long time and I'm not sure if you'll like the idea of having me back. We lost contact a long time ago after parting amicably, no further communication between us. Nothing. I thought we were going to at least say hello in social media every now and then, or in a text, but neither you nor me took the initiative. Well, maybe I di...

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The Landing

Submitted to Contest #47

Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. No one important knows you’re here. At least, no one conventionally important. You spoke to the mailman this morning as you locked your front door, and made sure he'd look after the neighbour’s cat whenever he could. You then entered the warm and bubbling coffee shop down the street and told the owner your news. Your last pit stop was the library, where you unloaded many of your books to donate, only to be gifted many more in return. And now your suitcase is heavier than before, lending palpable wei...

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The Wondrous Wish

Submitted to Contest #47

You look at yourself in the mirror, which lies just an inch away from the ticket-counter. You are in good shape. You notice your black, rumpled hair all covered in tiny, whitish flakes of your scalp's epithelium. Some might say dandruff, but you despise that word. You stroke your beard, relentlessly with your left hand, to give an impression as if you're pondering the reason behind your hairy look. You know shaving would have killed your masculinity, so you don't snip it. Instead, you keep it all shaggy and messy as it successfully hides you...

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Endless

Submitted to Contest #47

You didn’t want to go, but left with no choice; luggage in hand, you head to the station. Too many memories here, memories you’d rather forge-because they were happy ones and only depressed you further to recall. You met the love of your life in this town, married them, had two beautiful children-and now they’re gone. They’re along with your happiness, no one could’ve predicted that drunk driver coming out of nowheres. That night, that night took everything from you, and left you broken and battered and with nothing but memories left. The ...

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There Is No Way To Know

Submitted to Contest #47

Suitcase in hand, you’re headed to the downtown San Diego train station. The streetlamps flicker as you make your way down the side alleys that wind to the backside of platform B. You know the way by heart, as if a Volkswagon-sized magnet locked onto your chest and drug you there. You pull out your pack of Camels and tap out a single and light up. You take a long drag and think about Benji and what you’d like to say to him if only you had the chance. The prick still haunts you. What he did to you and your girl.---You’re fourteen and you’ve g...

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The Suitcase

Submitted to Contest #47

Suitcase in hand, you head to the station. It’s a hot day, you can feel the sweat bubble up under your collar. Despite the heat, you feel the rush of cold fear overwhelm you. It’s hot out. You’ll start to stink and people will notice. Not just the occasional whiff of body odor, but something much worse. The smell will conglomerate in people’s noses. They’ll alert others. Not many people are unaware of the smell of rotting flesh. Even though you wrapped the suitcase up tightly with garbage bags to keep the leakage at a minimum, you couldn’t g...

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